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From the time of the Church Fathers to today’s televangelists a “Scarlet Thread of Redemption” has been touted as the main storyline of biblical revelation, weaving itself through the tapestry of Scripture in diverse images and incidents: from the blood shed to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve in the Garden, to the blood applied to the doorposts of Israelite homes in Egypt, to Rahab’s scarlet thread in Jericho signaling Joshua’s men, to the blood shed at Temple sacrifices for the sins of Israel. All these, it is said, are precursors to the real story of the Bible, namely, Jesus and his blood shed at Calvary for the redemption not alone of Israel but of the whole world.

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